As I contemplate how deeply I want to go with this blog, one thing becomes clear to me, and that is that I must talk about the negatives as well as the positives.
Well today I'm going to express a couple of my pet peeves. These have been lingering in my mind in the shower, or at those times I'm drumming my fingers at a red light. The kind of fodder that comes up when you're lost in meditation inclined to be not nice -after just having arrived at the light as it goes from yellow ....you know.
I heard someone say recently, "when you see the Christmas decorations being put out in the stores, know that Halloween is near." I'm not sure I can fathom why on earth stores would put out Christmas things in October. It must make some sense in marketing -a subject I never studied because that's got to be on my top-ten list of boring subjects. But I wish someone would explain THIS to me: When people are shopping before Halloween and Thanksgiving, what possesses the marketers to think they'll be interested in Christmas decorations? I mean, they sit there taking up space that could have been taken up with ANYTHING other than Christmas things. I wonder what the statistics would be -- another on my top ten list of boring subjects -- but never mind, I wonder what the statistics would be if they polled people asking whether they would even consider buying Christmas decorations in October. I mean, in October we just got past back-to-school, didn't we? So let's say one person in a hundred would CONSIDER buying Christmas ornaments in October -- that would mean 99 wouldn't. So explain to me why it's good sense to take up space with things that most people aren't in the least interested in. Christmas in October? I don't think so! Next thing will be Christmas at Labor Day. No wait -- I saw the ultimate this time around -a Christmas in July sale. Enough to give you nightmares - now that I've mentioned it I'll probably dream tonight of Santa soaring through the air in a bathing suit, the reins in one hand and suntan lotion in the other.
Ok, that felt good. Now on to my number two pet peeve, which is actually my number one pet peeve, but I'm putting this second in this post and I can do that because this is my blog.
Ok. Ready?I can feel the cockles jumping up and down inside me just at the thought of it. You know, I used to like watching the news stations. I remember in younger years what a let-down feeling I'd have as each fourth year came upon us with the number-one boring subject getting set to dominate the entire year -- every time an ELECTION year rolled around. The presidential race. That meant a whole year of never-ending talking heads filling up our nightly news time with the latest "he said," and "she said" that characterizes an election year. Every four years I knew I'd have to find something else to watch on tv until the year was over.
Well has anyone noticed? This time around it's TWO years of this aggravation!!! By the time the election comes around, we will have heard this gibberish for two solid years! Now can someone splain THAT to me? I find it hard to believe that anyone in this country cares what "he said," and "she said" two solid years before election time. I get TIME magazine, and ordinarily I put up with the first boring part of each issue that covers the armchair speculating and gossip-mongering which always takes up the first fourth of the magazine. But good grief - TWO YEARS of it this time??? You've GOT to be kidding!
Does it seem to you as it does to me -- when I do see it on tv, or read about it in a magazine, I get this deja-vu feeling transporting me back to my kitchen on Lloyd Road umpiring the latest spat of "he said," and "she said" between my five and six year olds. Uncanny likeness. Except these five and six-year-olds have gray in their hair. I bet I'll dream about that now, five and six-year-olds with gray hair. Just watch.
Well I'll tell you what. I wouldn't give my vote to a five-year-old and I'm not going to give my vote to any of the contenders in this present pre-election circus. There is one condition, however, in which I might consider voting, and that's if the contender who in my opinion is the ugliest, evilest, mud-slingeringest one of the bunch should end up being one of the two at the end. I'd vote just to vote AGAINST that one.
I wish they'd make a way we could vote against them both. And have THOSE statistics published afterwards.
